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03 Aug 2015 9:31:02am

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What makes you think I listened to it in the first place? I will now, however, on your recommendation. I do not, alas, share your optimism about the ABC. As far as I'm concerned, the ABC once displayed a certain balance, between the 'Left' and 'Right' currents in acceptable opinion in Australian society. Then again so did elements of the MSM. However, as society has been driven ever further Right over the last few decades (the destruction of the Whitlam Government was the first campaign)the MSM has turned into a blatant and crude brainwashing apparatus, the Murdoch affliction to a quite ludicrous extent. Fairfax, particularly the 'Fin Review' (which reads like a clone of 'The Australian' these days)is going the same way, and who can forget signs of social insanity and diabolism like the 'talk-back' pandaemonium? And the ABC got its comeuppance under Howard. It has not recovered, and will not, under Dullard or Rudd, let alone (may God help us all!)Abbott. It is now quite as monocultural and gripped by Rightwing groupthink as the rest of the MSM, and no amount of self-delusion will change that. The absolute ubiquity of representatives of those Rightwing bedlams, the IPA, the CIS, News Corpse itself, and various overseas Rightists is undeniable. Just occasionally someone to the Left of Chris Mitchell is allowed a brief appearance, for cosmetic purposes (whereupon Gerard Henderson emerges from his crypt and hisses about 'Leftwing bias' at the ABC, as if it is 1973 and the dreaded 'feminazis', 'do-gooders', 'water-melons' and 'post-Modernists' were at the gates) but any Marxist or socialist of any hue is absolutely forbidden. The range of acceptable opinion has been so straitened, and the relentless hatemongering of the Right redefined as 'Free Speech', that discussion and debate has become the exchange of Rightist homilies and denunciations of the numerous 'enemies of Freedom' that haunt the paranoid Right.

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